This series, often shortened as P:TBS, prides itself in using humor that defies many of the Tropes typically seen in Pokémon parodies and other Abridged Series. As of May 2014, there are twenty episodes, a planned movie, and various extras, including redubs and songs performed by the characters. xJerry64x and Nowacking co-write, whilst 1KidsEntertainment does the video stuff, and between the three of them they handle all the voicing as well (1Kids: Ash, Pikachu, James; Nowacking: Misty, Jessie; Jerry: Brock, Meowth, The Narrator).

Team Elite 3 have also branched out into other projects, such as an abridgement of Twitch Plays Pokémon (seen here), for which they added two honorary members: ChromeGloss, who has provided them with incidental music for several years, and Stephan Krosecz of Abridged On Titan, who does outside animation and editing.

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Abusive Parents: Played for laughs. Delia Ketchum kicks Ash out of the house on his birthday, tries her hardest never to talk to him, and sleeps with Professor Oak, which everyone but Ash knows. She even has Gary beat him up for entertainment.

Ash: "And you can't even purple because you're ugly and you're stupid and you're bad! That's right: you can't even purple!"

Then later, in episode 9:

Misty: "But you're wearingblue!" Ash: "It's a light purple, which, incidentally, you cannot do." Misty: "Just because you keep saying that doesn't make it a thing! I have no idea what you're talking about!" Ash: "Neither do I!"

Tracey being with the group the entire time. From episode 15:

Misty: "You weren't there! You don't know that!" Tracey: "But I was there and you don't know that.

Later on, in the three part special episode, it's revealed that Tracey has been with the group the entire time and Misty was the only one who didn't notice him. Subverted at the end of the episode, as it turns out he's actually just some insane stalker that none of them have met before, but Ash was too stupid to realize it and Brock wasn't there because Tracey killed him to take his place.

Camp Straight: James, Up to Eleven. There's as many hints between him and Jesse in the later episodes as there was in the original series. Plus, she distinctly refers to her association with him as "our relationship".

Cosmic Plaything: Misty. She is the least insane member of the cast and the universe is determined to make her break (and has succeed a lot).

Crapsack World: Let's see, Nurse Joy is corrupt and inefficient, Officer Jenny is a pedophile, people like Brock aren't arrested, parental abandonment is widespread, and literally everyone the "heroes" meet is insane or evil (or both). Played for Laughs, naturally.

Cordon Bleugh Chef: Brock is still the team's chef, but his dishes are always horrific creations often involving miscellaneous body parts as the key ingredients.

Downer Ending: On Misty's part in episode 24, she ends up losing all of her Pokemon thanks to Ash, who lost the battle between him and the thief who stole Misty's pokemon completely on purpose as revenge for Misty capturing pokemon that he wanted. Even BROCK was disturbed by Ash's actions...

Early Installment Weirdness: Ash was not as dumb as he was later, there were pop culture references abound (something 1Kids would later attempt to avoid at all costs), Misty and several other female characters were just the guys doing falsetto voices, and Professor Oak had a typical wheezy old man voice whose only joke was that he was sleeping with Ash's mother. The third thing is lampshaded in both versions of Episode 2, where Misty reveals she had a voice condition ("Falsetosis") that other females, like Nurse Joy, were currently suffering from.

Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: The only person to so far legitimately befriend Brock, Barbara, has a really bad case of this. So does Bulbasaur. However, it's more like "Elber Fubb Sybdrobe."

Enfante Terrible: Ash regularly commits all manner of atrocities, but it always seems to be out of sheer stupidity. Except for the time when he deliberately allowed all of Misty's Pokemon to be stolen out of petty spite.

At the end of episode 24, Brock actually appeared to be shocked when Ash deliberately lost the battle between him and the Pokemon thief, which resulted in Misty losing all of her Pokemon to said thief.

Even before this, Brock appears just as disgusted with the thief as Misty is for wanting to eat Pokemon, saying that they're for "breeding only" and calling the thief a "sicko".

Everybody Laughs Ending: Played straight in episode 7 at the expense of Misty. Subverted in episode 12 when all four main characters seem to be laughing, but in reality, only Ash, Brock, and Pikachu are laughing while Misty is actually crying because she's distraught that Ash has gotten away with setting the Celedon Gym on fire, and was in fact rewarded with his fourth gym badge for doing nothing but watch everyone else put it out.

Exact Words: In Episode 24, Ash makes sure to hammer in that he can win a battle "whenever he wants to", signaling that he's about to throw his fight with the Pokemon thief.

That's not even the first time. Remember back in episode 7 how Sisty was explaining why there are suddenly three of her? She made some pretty vague remarks about a machine and a "boyfriend" with cat eyes who gave her the idea.

Ash: He's either down the block to the right, or he's up in my mommy's room.

I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: Inverted with the guy in episode 22 who says he is a janitor, not a doctor. And he is not even a janitor, he has just been living in the ruined hospital since it was abandoned.

Insane Troll Logic: Misty's sisters insist that Ash won the battle between him and Misty by claiming that he could've won, even though he didn't.

I Love the Dead: In The Stinger of episode 8, Brock revealed that he was with a family for a Thanksgiving dinner, where he hosed down the family's collection of Vulpix; however, at the dead of night, he "killed the Vulpix, made love to the carcasses, before I buried them in the back yard. Breeding!"

Tracey: Ok guys, I'm done with my best sketch yet! *shows a picture of a naked Oak and Delliah.*

Misty: Ok, never mind! Brock I missed you!

Let's Get Out of Here: At the end of episode 23, when Tommy's parents are killed in the explosion, the trio simply state that "weapons are bad" in solemn tones before noting that they should go. It's further enforced when the group realizes that Tommy holds them responsible for his parents dying, and the parents come back as ghosts.

Love Triangle: Both Brock and Misty have a crush on Ash, for some reason. Misty is obviously less than enthusiastic about it, while Brock goes out of his way to make Misty look bad so that Ash will prefer him.

In Episode 10, when introducing Barbara to Ash, Pikachu, and Misty, Brock refers to them as "my friend and his sexual companion...and his Misty."

Episode 15 has Pikachu proclaiming that he loves everyone, even Tracy! But not Max...

Vaporeon is disparaged throughout Episode 19, with it universally being described as the worst of the Eevee evolutions. At one point, Brock says that Team Rocket took "Vaporeon and all the good Pokemon!"

In Episode 2 of the Orange Islands arc, the narrator begins the episode with "Ash and friends (and Tracey)..."

Episode 3 of the Orange Islands Special continues it.

Narrator: Ash and Misty, now without a large baby Pokemon to ride, had to take a ferry back home to Pallet Town. Unfortunately for them, Tracey still tagged along.

No Indoor Voice: Samurai, who's always shouting, even while inside his cabin. James, to a lesser extent.

Parental Abandonment: All three protagonists have been disowned by their parent(s) at some point during or prior to the series: Ash (on his birthday, no less) so he wouldn't dip into his mom's savings account; Misty because her love for Fire-type Pokemon was seen as a disgrace to her family of Water-type trainers; and Brock for sullying his family name with his unhealthy obsession with breeding. In defense of Brock's father, Brock deserved it.

Pokémon Speak: Played straight in some cases, averted in others. Pikachu, for one, is the series' most prevalent aversion to this trope; he speaks perfect English and has conversations with other characters.

Police Are Useless: Officer Jenny is NOT good at her job in any way, to the point where she doesn't even seem to acknowledge that she's even a police officer.

Really 700 Years Old: Prof Oak apparently founded a nudist colony that Tracy's great, great, great grandparents lived in. How this is possible is of course left unexplained.

Reformed, but Rejected: In episode 17, Officer Jenny decides it's time to stop molesting children and start taking her job seriously. Unfortunately for her, she still has a bad rapport with the kids. And Brock doesn't help.

Remember the New Guy: Brock is first shown traveling with the others in episode 5 without even showing how or why he's with them. Subverted in that Ash has absolutely no idea who he is at the time, and doesn't even notice him until they start talking to each other. Even some of the viewers were confused by his sudden appearance.

Tracey in the Orange Island specials claims to have been with Ash and Misty for several months. Lampshaded by the two as they have no clue who he is.

Running Gag: Someone saying, "I'm up here and you're down there!" or a variation of the sort.

Sanity Slippage: Misty, the more time she spends with Ash and Brock. Episodes 14 and 15 (despite the latter being All Just a Dream) imply that Brock is doing it on purpose to ensure she doesn't steal his friendship with Ash.

Shout-Out: Averted. 1Kids dislikes references (the Take That listed below is basically the only one in the entire series), preferring to revise until they come up with something more creative. This has been Flanderized into being his real-life primary personality facet.

Justified on Misty's part. By that point, Ash had broken her brain through sheer stupidity.

Too Spicy For Yog Sogoth: Brock actually dies during the Orange Islands Special, but he ends up getting thrown out of Hell because he decided to breed Satan, as this set off a violent battle to the death between the demon and his offspring for control of the Underworld. The other members of Hell were frightened by the prospect of him breeding Satan again, which is something Brock admits he was fully intent on doing.

Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty: Ash wins the vast majority of his battles through cheating. He has earned victories and badges through exploitation, murdering or terrorizing the opposition, and forcing his Pokemon to use moves they normally cannot learn.

Tsundere: Misty, though her swings between tsuntsun and deredere are even less predictable than in the original show.

In the episode 1 redub we get to see her mood swings as they occur in her head.

Vitriolic Best Buds: Pikachu has no qualms about electrocuting or setting up traps meant for Ash, but Ash still considers Pikachu his buddy. Then again, Ash thinks nothing of getting his Pikachu replaced in episode 10.

The entire basis of the song My 'Bridged Friends.

Vocal Dissonance: Cute Pikachu's voice is a deep, brutish growl, and the things he says are just as crude.

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